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Acoma a.k.a. Acoma Pueblo is a Native American pueblo approximately sixty miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States. Three villages make up Acoma Pueblo: Sky City, Acomita, and McCartys. The Acoma Pueblo tribe is a federally recognized tribal entity. The historical land of Acoma Pueblo totaled roughly 5 million acres; now only 10% of this land is in the hands of the community within the Acoma Indian Reservation.

Acoma is a 367-foot-high mesa with sheer sides. Its top is an area of seventy
acres, on which is the oldest continually occupied site in the United States, dating
from circa1100; archeological digs provide some evidence of an additional five ...

Acoma is an oral and a matriarchal society, with property being passed down to
the youngest daughter in the family. When the Catholic Mission was built in the
mid-1600s, under Spanish direction, Native American traditions and symbols
were ...

Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road by Jim Hinckley

Known as Sky City, Acoma is a seventy-acre Indian village that's been inhabited
since at least A.D. 1150. In the niches of shaded canyon walls and along quiet
streams are ruins of communities such as Chaco Canyon, abandoned more than
a ...

Today Acoma is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in North America.
The 370- foot-high sandstone mesa in the New Mexico desert is home to more
than 5,000 Acoma people. The first European explorers to describe them were ...

The Rio Grande pueblos are known as eastern Pueblos; Zuni, Hopi, and
sometimes Acoma and Laguna are known as western Pueblos. Location Acoma
is located roughly 60 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The reservation
consists ...